Reference
GK172/1
Title
Abstract of Title of Messrs Thos Plum & Jn
Plum to Messuage known as 'Merry Boys' Eynesbury
(1A 0R 10P) of freehold lad adj forming lot 5
at sale of 18 Sept 1879
a)
1) Rt Hon Geo Stevens Lord Enfield
Hon Thos Henry Armar Lowry Correy
2) Rt Hon Jn Wm Earl of Sandwich
3) Jn Plum of St Neots, Hunts. Confectioner
4) Jn Savill
recites Marriage Settlement by Lease & Release
1) Jn Wm Earl of Sandwich
Rt Hon Mary Countess of Sandwich
his wife
2) Lord Enfield (then Rt Hon Geo Stevens Byng)
T.H.A.L. Corry as above
3) Rt Hon Geo Earl of Cadogan
Rt Jn Hen Viscount Templeton
4) Rt Hon Jn Robt Viscount Sydney
Schedule of Deeds 1833 -1848 attached
b) will of Jn Plum (d 23 Mar 1879)
bequeaths 1000 free of duty on trust for benefit
of dau Fanny Ann & legacy of 500 to her
(subj to payment of all debts etc)
to sons Thos & Jn Plum all real & personal
estate as tenants in common
appt 2 sons Thos & Jn Plum & Friend Fred
Atkinson trustees of will
made 12 Feb 1855
Codicil noting recent remarriage of Jn Plum
republishes his will (otherwise wld have been
void)
26 March 1868
further codicil
devises Dwellinghouse in River Terrace,
St Neots & bequest of furniture
500 more to dau Fanny Ann Penton
to set aside 1000 for use of
wife during widowhood
appts sum in law Fred Penton of Leighton Buzzard
in place of Fred Atkinson
Hon Wm Bingham Baring
(settlement following Articles of Agreement
5 Sept 1838)
estates in Eynesbury (deleted later) & St
Neots, Hunts
to be held by 3) as Trustees 99 years
to raise 300 pa for Countess
2) can sell consent of Jn Earl
of Sandwiich but subj to 40,000
mortgage debt (these hereditaments
since fully exonerated)
power of Jn Earl of Sandwich to
mortgage up to 4000 & interest
(none yet made)
messuage, cottage or tenement
with piece of gdn or orchard
lying in Eynesbury reputed
(with a small spinney not the
subject of this abstract) to contain
1A 0R 37P but by a recent
measurement 1A 0R 29P
formerly in occ of - Careless & now & for
many years past of Jn Shepherd
pt of which premises were in Award of
commissioners on Inclosure of Eynesbury
described as site of dwelling house or
farm house with yards, buildings
& Home close (1A 0R 18P) property of
Jn Wm Earl of Sandwich
abs were pt;- cottage & premises
belonging to Reps of late Jas Lewis
pt;- premises late belonging to
Mrs Bell & now to Wm
Paine
other pt Brook div St Neots
Parish from Eynesbury Parish
other pt premises belonging to
Jn Plum
other part Road or Town Street
(subj to Land Tax 1.15s.0d.)
Consideration 12.05
plan attached 30 Dec 1848
Declaration :- sons real estate subj to legacies
31 Jan 1874
proved Principal Registry Probate Division
27 May 1879
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Date free text
1879
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From: 1833 To: 1879
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